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Nov 1, 2018Some ten billion years ago, the Milky Way merged with a large galaxy. The stars from this partner, named Gaia-Enceladus, make up most of the Milky Way's halo and also shaped its thick disk, giving it its inflated form.
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Oct 31, 2018Mars' organic carbon may have originated from a series of electrochemical reactions between briny liquids and volcanic minerals, according to new analyses.
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Oct 31, 2018After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations.
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Oct 30, 2018Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object.
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Oct 30, 2018NASA has a new mission to Mars, and it's taking podcast listeners along for the ride.
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Oct 29, 2018Astronomers have witnessed, in the finest detail ever, the slow death of a neighbouring dwarf galaxy, which is gradually losing its power to form stars.
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Oct 29, 2018Two outback radio telescopes synchronised to observe the same point of sky have discovered more about one of the Universe's most mysterious events in new published research.
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Oct 28, 2018If you’re standing in the Southern Hemisphere on a clear night, you can see two luminous clouds offset from the Milky Way.
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Oct 28, 2018A team of Hungarian astronomers and physicists may have confirmed two elusive clouds of dust, in semi-stable points just 400,000 kilometres from Earth.
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Oct 27, 2018After touching down in November, NASA's InSight spacecraft will spread its solar panels, unfold a robotic arm … and stay put. Unlike the space agency's rovers, InSight is a lander designed to study an entire planet from just one spot.